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  • Where am I gonna get my chitterlins, catfish steaks and collard greens?

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • Whereby this gracious and ever mercy fool lovin kindness would go to the cockles of my heart; ay and my chitterlins would crow, and I should sing O be joyfool, if so be as I did find as words wus any think but wind.

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

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  • I think that today, this is more commonly spelled chitterlings or chitlins, but this is the spelling from the book (see list at right). I'm especially fond of its second meaning, in light of the first:

    "The bowels. There is a rumpus among my bowels, i.e. I have the colic. The frill of a shirt."

    September 7, 2008